squalid-ness

New developments:

1. I think my computer and I are telepathically linked. About one in every hundred times I am able to move my mouse with my eyes. When it's happens, the clouds break open, and choirs of angels sing Hallelujah....
2. I am beginning to think in excel worksheets. I'm not sure what this means for the social archetecture of my brain.
3. I don't know that I have ever had a job that has demanded so much of me in this way. So this is why people refer to their careers as their "babies." I don't want to be one of those people, but I see what they mean.
4. Levis jeans and me are back together again. Following a productive little jaunt to the Nord half yearly sale, I am once again in Levis. Reminds me of my Millers Outpost job in high school.
5. I have recently received yet another Certification of Accomplishment (does it really matter what kind?) and am in the process of completing two other types of certification in this next year. I fell like I am so impressive on paper, but there's a gap there between the paper and the reality of the skill level. At the same time, I am somewhat rebeliously clinging to my status as a non-expert. YOU be the expert. I'll be the facilitator.
6. Two nights ago, when I could not quiet my mind, I wrote and wrote and wrote Phillipians 4:6-7 until I filled up a page. And I felt so much more calm, and so able to sleep. Gotta remember that strategy.
7. My grandpa, in reference to The Flood, said "That was really something, wasn't it." just like he had been there. Love it.
8. My dad tried to tell me, my brothers, and my mom that prior to The Flood, all of the animals were vegetarian.
9. My dad, a staunch denier of global warming, told us all that the climate of Antartica was once just like the climate of California. Yes, friends, Antartica is an ancient desert beneath them there ice bergs. I love it when my dad says stuff like that.

okay, time's up. back to excel.